Register.



J, M. TRIGGS.

REGISTER,

APPUCATION FILED MAR. 24. 1915.

1atentedSept. T, 1915.

mwmu JAMES, M. TRIGGS, 0F HUNTINGTON, INDIANA.

REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 19115,

Application filed March 24, 1915. Serial No. 16,784.

To all whom it may concern Bait known that I, James M. Tnroos, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Huntington, in the county of Huntington and State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and useful Register; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accom- ,panying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to heating appliances, and particularly to means for use, at the same time, both as a hot air inlet and a cold air outlet for a room.

p The object of my invention is the provision of improved means of this character whereby it is necessary to make a single hole in a floor, wall, or the like, for the customary hot air inlet and cold air return registers. I

Further objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following detailed description thereof.

The inver ion is fully described in the following specification, and while, in its broader aspect, it is capable of embodiment in numerous forms, a preferred embodiment thereof is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a device embodying my invention in operative connection 'with an air heating means, and Fig.

2 is a reduced. central vertical section of theportion of the device comprising the invention.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates an air heating furnace of any suitable or convenient type, which has one or more hot air discharging pipes 52 leadingfrom the upper portion of the air heating chamber thereof and one or more cold air return pipes 23 leading to the lower portion of the air chamber thereof.

The feature comprising my invention is illustrated, in the present instance, as taking the form of a box or seat 4, WhlCll rlS placed on the floor 5, located above the plane of the furnace 1, and having either a single opening substantially the size of the box bottom, or a plurality of adjoining openings, as best shown in Fig. 2. The box 4, in the present instance, is provided with a center hot air compartment 6 and the two cold air end compartments 7, 7, which latter are divided from the compartment 6 by walls 8. The center hot air compartment 6 has communication through its bottom with the hot air pipe 2 of the furnace, and has, in the present instance, one side wall in the form of a grating, as indicated at 9, to permit the exit of hot airtherefrom into the room in which the distributing means is disposed.

Each end or cold air chamber 7 has a grated inlet opening 10 and has communication with the respective cold air pipe 3 through the medium of a boxing 11, which extends down from the bottom of the chamher 7 through the floor opening and connects with the cold air pipe.

It is evident that the box 4, in addition to serving as a seat, also performs the function of both the hot air and cold air registers of a room, and that the number and relative location of the different chambers or compartments thereof depend very largely on the number of pipes connected thereto and the arrangement of the same. It is also evident that the box 4., or an equivalent thereof, could be disposed within a wall and be adapted to direct hot air into and cause a return of cold. from the rooms at either side of the wall.

It will be understood that while .7 have illustrated only one form of my invention, and in connection with an individual furnace, it is capable of numerous modifications and changes in form and of use in connection with different types of furnaces, without departing from the spirit of the claims.

Having thus described my invention, what claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,

1. A heating appliance-0f the class described comprising a box-like member divided into compartments one of which compartments has an inlet opening in its bottom and a grated outlet opening in a side thereof, and another of said compartments having an inlet opening in a side thereof at an angle to the outlet side opening of said compartment, and having an outlet opening in its bottom.

EMA heating appliance of the class described comprising an oblong box-like member having center and end compartments, with the center compartment provided with an inlet opening in its bottom and having a wall thereof which is formed by a side of iii Wardly and downwardly from the respective end portions of the member longitudinally thereof, said center compartment having an inlet opening in its bottom and having a15 grated outlet in a side of said member, and each of said end compartments having a grated inlet in the respective end. of said member and an outlet in its bottom.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto 2O signed my name to this specification JAMES M. TRIGGS. 

